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Chrome 115 rolls out with anti-cookie tools
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No other new features

Chrome 115 has been rolling out, and while it is short on new features, it has something to kill off tracking cookies.

Hackers stealing cookies
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Monday, 22 August 2022 12:15

Hackers stealing cookies


Bypass multi-factor authentication

Hackers are stealing cookies from current or recent web sessions to bypass multi-factor authentication.

EU rules that you can't build cookie consent walls
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You have to provide them the content anway

The EU has ruled that you can't make access to your website's content dependent on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data -- aka a 'consent cookie wall'.

Firefox blocks third party cookies by default
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Prefers eating fruit and memory

Big Cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation have announced privacy improvements to its flagship memory hog browser Firefox. 

Advertisers fume as Apple blocks cookies
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Friday, 15 September 2017 11:32

Advertisers fume as Apple blocks cookies


No cookies on this Safari 

The biggest advertising organisations say Apple will "sabotage" the current economic model of the internet with plans to integrate cookie blocking technology into the new version of Safari.

Friday, 07 November 2014 11:18

Privacy groups warn about super cookies

Pressure on US phone companies

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Bing holds onto your IP address for “only” six months